Monthly Archives: November 2016

KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah yesterday renamed outgoing Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to form the next Cabinet. The decision came after the Amir held consultations with former speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem and former prime...

KUWAIT: Following rain in various areas including Salmi and Jahra where it rained relatively heavily, Kuwait Meteorology Department reminded of its previous warning that scattered rain might fall and could sometimes be thundery, accompanied by winds of up to...

KUWAIT: A Kuwait Airways passenger plane was involved in a minor accident at Mumbai airport, the company said in a statement yesterday. It said the wingtip of an A320 aircraft scratched Kuwait Airways’ A330 aircraft’s left outboard flap after...

KUWAIT: MP Abdul Kareem Al-Kandari yesterday submitted his financial disclosure statement to the Public Anti-Corruption Authority, becoming the first lawmaker to do so. Accordingly, the authority reminded other lawmakers that they had to submit their statements within 60 days...

KUWAIT: Egyptian minister of immigration and Egyptians abroad affairs Nabila Makram stressed that Kuwait’s ambassador to Cairo Mohammed Saleh Al-Thuwayyekh strongly denied any intention to reduce the number of Egyptians in Kuwait.
Makram added that she met Thuwayyekh to discuss...

KUWAIT: Around 14.6 percent of adults in Kuwait have high blood glucose levels, the Ministry of Health (MoH) revealed on Wednesday, citing a study conducted in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO).
In a ceremony to mark the 'World...

KUWAIT: Residency detectives arrested members of a gang involved in the theft of electricity cables belonging to the Ministry of Electricity and Water. Detectives uncovered a gang consisting of a number of Bangladeshi nationals, who were involved in stealing...

KUWAIT: Detectives received information about an unlicensed domestic helpers office run by an Ethiopian man. The man provided helpers on an hourly basis to citizens and expats, which is illegal according to Kuwait's labor regulations. Furthermore, all the maids...

KUWAIT: A 19-year-old Kuwaiti citizen ran over a Bangladeshi man who was sitting at a bus stop in a bid to 'scare him'. The man told police he was just 'having fun' and that he was driving along with...

KUWAIT: A woman in her twenties trusted a colleague of hers who promised to marry her, and went with him for a ride. But when they were alone, the man sexually assaulted her so she jumped from the car...

'Motionless body of a girl was left crumpled in the street'
ALEPPO: More than 50,000 Syrians have joined a growing exodus of terrified civilians from east Aleppo, a monitor said yesterday, as the UN Security Council was set for emergency...